Step by step Change Linux Partition System ID on Fedora system

Change Linux Partition System ID
on Linux Fedora system

The step by step below show the use
of fdisk tool to change Linux partition system id or Linux system type id to
Windows partition type Id. The example below show that the Linux hard disk
partition or Linux default partition type Id 83 System Linux, change to Windows
partition type Id c System W95 FAT32 (LBA)

!. Make sure that you have
empty hard Disk Drive to work with. The procedure below may remove/delete
all data inside the disk.

2. Invoke the fdisk and point
to the hard disk drive that need to change the partition type id. The
example below show the /dev/sdb is my hard disk, change this line to fit
your system configuration.

[root@fedora ~]#
fdisk /dev/sdb

The number of
cylinders for this disk is set to 38154.

There is nothing
wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,

and could in
certain setups cause problems with:

1) software that
runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)

2) booting and
partitioning software from other OSs

(e.g., DOS FDISK,
OS/2 FDISK)

3. Hit 'm'
key and then hit Enter key to get fdisk help to display.

Command (m for
help): m

Command action

a toggle a
bootable flag

b edit bsd
disklabel

c toggle the
dos compatibility flag

d delete a
partition

l list known
partition types

m print this
menu

n add a new
partition

o create a new
empty DOS partition table

p print the
partition table

q quit without
saving changes

s create a new
empty Sun disklabel

t change a
partition's system id

u change
display/entry units

v verify the
partition table

w write table
to disk and exit

x extra
functionality (experts only)

4. Hit 'p'
key and then hit Enter key to get fdisk to display partition table.

Command (m for
help): p

Disk /dev/sdb: 40.0
GB, 40007761920 bytes

64 heads, 32
sectors/track, 38154 cylinders

Units = cylinders
of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes

Disk identifier:
0x00b4c6f2

Device Boot
Start End Blocks Id System

/dev/sdb1 1 38154 39069680
83 Linux

5. Hit 'l'
key and then hit Enter key to get fdisk to display partition type.

Command (m for
help): l

0 Empty
1e Hidden W95 FAT1 80 Old Minix be Solaris boot

1 FAT12
24 NEC DOS 81 Minix / old Lin bf Solaris

2 XENIX root
39 Plan 9 82 Linux swap / So c1 DRDOS/sec (FAT-

3 XENIX usr
3c PartitionMagic 83 Linux c4 DRDOS/sec (FAT-

4 FAT16 <32M
40 Venix 80286 84 OS/2 hidden C: c6 DRDOS/sec (FAT-

5 Extended
41 PPC PReP Boot 85 Linux extended c7 Syrinx

6 FAT16
42 SFS 86 NTFS volume set da Non-FS data

7 HPFS/NTFS
4d QNX4.x 87 NTFS volume set db CP/M / CTOS / .

8 AIX
4e QNX4.x 2nd part 88 Linux plaintext de Dell Utility

9 AIX bootable
4f QNX4.x 3rd part 8e Linux LVM df BootIt

a OS/2 Boot Manag
50 OnTrack DM 93 Amoeba e1 DOS access

b W95 FAT32
51 OnTrack DM6 Aux 94 Amoeba BBT e3 DOS R/O

c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
52 CP/M 9f BSD/OS e4 SpeedStor

e W95 FAT16 (LBA)
53 OnTrack DM6 Aux a0 IBM Thinkpad hi eb BeOS fs

f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
54 OnTrackDM6 a5 FreeBSD ee EFI GPT

10 OPUS
55 EZ-Drive a6 OpenBSD ef EFI (FAT-12/16/

11 Hidden FAT12
56 Golden Bow a7 NeXTSTEP f0 Linux/PA-RISC b

12 Compaq diagnost
5c Priam Edisk a8 Darwin UFS f1 SpeedStor

14 Hidden FAT16 <3
61 SpeedStor a9 NetBSD f4 SpeedStor

16 Hidden FAT16
63 GNU HURD or Sys ab Darwin boot f2 DOS secondary

17 Hidden HPFS/NTF
64 Novell Netware b7 BSDI fs fd Linux raid auto

18 AST SmartSleep
65 Novell Netware b8 BSDI swap fe LANstep

1b Hidden W95 FAT3
70 DiskSecure Mult bb Boot Wizard hid ff BBT

1c Hidden W95 FAT3
75 PC/IX

6. Hit 't'
key and then hit Enter key to get fdisk to change the partition system id.

Command (m for
help): t

Selected partition
1

7. Hit 'c'
key and hit Enter key to get fdisk to changed system type of partition 1 to Id c
System W95 FAT32 (LBA).

Hex code (type L to
list codes): c

Changed system type
of partition 1 to c (W95 FAT32 (LBA))

8. Hit 'w'
key and then hit Enter key to get fdisk to write change that we made to partiton
table on the hard disk. If you want to cancel all the setting hit 'q'
key
to quit without saving.

Command (m for
help): w

The partition table
has been altered!

Calling ioctl() to
re-read partition table.

WARNING: If you
have created or modified any DOS 6.x

partitions, please
see the fdisk manual page for additional

information.

Syncing disks.

[root@fedora ~]#

Verify the changes made to
hard disk partition table

Use the fdisk -l /dev/sdb to
verify the changes that we made on the hard disk partition table applied.